{"id":196454,"date":"2025-04-20T23:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-octagon-foundation-backs-mathare-park-greening-drive\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T23:36:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:36:01","slug":"kenya-octagon-foundation-backs-mathare-park-greening-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-octagon-foundation-backs-mathare-park-greening-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Octagon Foundation Backs Mathare Park Greening Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Octagon Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of Octagon Africa, yesterday partnered with grassroots community organization Mto Wangu Initiative to support the expansion and greening of Mathare Community Park through a tree planting drive and community engagement program.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The event, held at Good Samaritan Children&#8217;s Home and Mathare Community Park, also included a CSR Funday for children and residents of the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Once an illegal dumpsite before 2017, the current&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504180248.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Octagon Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of Octagon Africa, yesterday partnered with grassroots community organization Mto Wangu Initiative to support the expansion and greening of Mathare Community Park through a tree planting drive and community engagement program. The event, held at Good Samaritan Children&#8217;s Home and Mathare Community Park, also included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":196455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7102,13716,5265,44381,4688,430,29149,257,51177,7191,254],"class_list":["post-196454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-drive","tag-foundation","tag-greening","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mathare","tag-news","tag-octagon","tag-park","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}